Tiger Woods: Just Bag It! Why Tiger Should Skip the Rest of the Year

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Published: August 11, 2010

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Eldrick "Tiger" Woods used to have major game even before EA Sports told the whole world about that.

For instance, as a two-year-old toddler, his father Earl showed off his son's prodigious talents on The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, as guests such as the late Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart marveled at the little boy's swinging skill-set.

Years later, he rose on occasion after occasion, winning PGA amateur championships three times in a row, a prelude of better things to come on the pro links tour.

In 1997, Tiger Woods had the Augusta gallery at his feet, taking on both doubters and believers in one solid, mechanic, video game-like swoop from first tee on Thursday to a final round tap-in on Sunday that spring, winning the Masters as a first-year pro in record fashion.

That dominance remained for what seemed like eons, even accruing a media-favorite "Tiger Slam" in the 2000s, looking as if he would always leave golfers such as Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, and his arch-rival, Phil "Lefty" Mickelson, in the dust.

Yet who knew that on that fateful Thanksgiving night in 2009 that the Tiger stratosphere would come crumbling down within milliseconds after crashing his Cadillac Escalade into a tree, reportedly trying to avoid his wife's appropriate wrath due to his extramarital affairs which were soon to come to surface, thanks to media outlets such as TMZ.

The Cypress, Calif., native then not only unveiled a sordid past involving more than 10 women he cavorted with (who, of course, were not his wife), but that Tiger "sheen," an image once surfeit with good-natured, family values, was gone, too.



Moreover, Tiger's chances of reconciling with his wife, Elin, and retaining joint custody of his kids, Sam and Charlie, because of his inability to keep his player profile absolutely nonexistent and absent from his playing one, evaporated qu...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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